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Stokowski - Transcriptions - Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Chopin, Debussy, Franck, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky / Marjana Lipovšek, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch / EMI Classics Audio CD 2003 Stereo
UPC 724358507126
Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was an English conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra and his appearance in the Disney film Fantasia with that orchestra. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed.
Stokowski was music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air and many others. He was also the founder of the All-American Youth Orchestra, the New York City Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Stokowski conducted the music for and appeared in several Hollywood films, most notably Disney's Fantasia, and was a lifelong champion of contemporary composers, giving many premieres of new music during his 60-year conducting career. Stokowski, who made his official conducting debut in 1909, appeared in public for the last time in 1975 but continued making recordings until June 1977, a few months before his death at the age of 95.
| Label: | EMI Classics - 724358507126 |
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CD
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| Country: | Europe |
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2003 |
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Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
1. Sheep may safely graze 5:06
2. Sleepers awake 4:30
3. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott 4:01
4. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 9:39
Luigi Boccherini 1743-1505
5. Minuet 2:32
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827
6. ‘Moonlight’ Sonata (first movement) 5:33
Frederic Chopin 1810-1849
7. Prelude in E minor, 0p.28 No. 4 2:38
Cesar Franck 1822-1890
8. Panis angelicus 3:39
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky ıs40- 18935 |
9. Andante cantabile 6.29
10. “At the Ball’’ 3.05
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
11. Clair de lune 5.10
12. La Cathédrale engloutie 8.34
Sergei Rachmaninov 1373-1943
13. Prelude in C sharp minor 4.49
- Mezzo-Soprano - Marjana Lipovšek
- Orchestra - The Philadelphia Orchestra
- Conducted By - Wolfgang Sawallisch
